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Everything’s Fine in the Democrat Echochamber
A new politics under Hillary? Reform of Wall Street? About as likely as Mexico paying for the TrumpWall (read more)
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Is the US A New Weimar? If So, The Democrats Made It
If Donald Trump is the symptom of US sickness, it is the Democrats who are the disease (read more)
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Post-Sanders Disillusionment? Not if You Know Your Democrat History
here is speculation that Bernie’s Big Misadventure in the sucker-fleecing, traveling carnival of the Democratic Party Primary system will cause disillusionment with the Party. You think? But the disillusioned would be coming a bit late (read more)
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Hillary’s Hair-Trigger Partisans Versus Trump’s Smalltown Nostalgists. A Zero Sum Game
In a battle between Trump and Clinton, should it come to that, no-one wins. Essay (read more)
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Feel the Bern if it Makes You Happy, but Don’t Hope For a Fairytale Ending
Sanders as president is a dream too far, writes Phil Rockstroh from New York (read more)
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A Viagra Republic will Rise. Or Not. Election Cycle Anomie
Return of the carnival of false hope and manufactured fear. The US Election Cycle hots up. Or, more accurately, reheats a tired forula (read more)
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Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well
While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an “empty suit.” Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate. (read more)